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The Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAPST) is designed to provide an understanding of the discipline of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse (ATOD) prevention, as it relates to communities, providers and volunteers. This is a fun and interactive training that focuses on practical application and is geard towards professional prevention providers. For Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAPST) Registration and schedules visit: http://collaboration.omni.org/sites/sapst/pages/home.aspx

Date To Expire: 9/26/2013 12:00 PM

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Congratulations to OMNI staff, Ana P. Nunes, PhD. and Melissa Richmond, PhD., and collaborators from the Colorado Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP), and the University of Colorado Boulder for publication of their research funded by the Employee Assistance Research Foundation, The Effect of Employee Assistance Services on Reductions in Employee Absenteeism, in the Journal of Business and Psychology. Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) provide an important vehicle to assist employees experiencing personal and work-related problems that impact employee absenteeism. The published research utilized an objective measure of work time lost to provide empirical evidence that users of EAP services tend to reduce their absenteeism at a faster pace than non-EAP users experiencing similar challenges to maintaining productivity. The abstract and article may be found here.

Congratulations to OMNI staff and partners at Peer Assistance Services, Inc., and Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health for publication of their commentary Ten Years of Implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): Lessons Learned in Substance Abuse Journal. SBIRT is a public health approach to identifying, reducing, and preventing substance misuse. In the article, Dr. Nunes and her co-authors reflect on key strategies that support successful implementation of substance use screening and intervention in health care settings as a standard of care. The abstract and article may be found here

In September 2017, Katie Gelman, DrPH, MPH, presented at the Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) conference on the role of ethnic identity in the development of marijuana use among American Indian adolescents. Katie’s research has included testing the measurement characteristics of an ethnic identity construct over a two-year period during early adolescence to understand how this complex construct may shift during a period of rapid developmental change. Katie also discussed findings related to testing the ethnic identity construct as a protective factor influencing emergent marijuana use. Findings from growth mixture model analyses suggested that while ethnic identity showed null effects, culturally-based community activities had a strong protective effect against risky marijuana use, as did prosocial peer relationships. For more information on the NCRE conference, click here.

OMNI was delighted to present at the 2017 National Cannabis Summit in Denver, Colorado. OMNI staff, Melissa Richmond, PhD, and Carolyn Swenson, MSPH, MSN, RN, from Peer Assistance Services, Inc., presented a Lunch and Learn session: Lessons from 10 Years of Cannabis Screening and Intervention in Colorado. Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is an established approach to identify individuals who use substances at risky levels to intervene early and prevent negative health consequences. Colorado was awarded two consecutive five-year federal grants (2006-2016) to implement SBIRT and screened over 173,000 patients for alcohol and other drugs, including cannabis. To better understand cannabis use in a changing landscape, OMNI conducted studies examining data on individuals who had been screened for cannabis through SBIRT Colorado. At the Summit, Melissa and Carolyn shared approaches to cannabis screening that account for legalization; information on delivering brief interventions tailored to context and population subgroups; and age-related and subpopulation trends in cannabis screening. The session also addressed needed areas for research, including definitions of risk level based on quantity and frequency of use, and cannabis impacts on health. For more information on SBIRT Colorado, please see http://www.sbirtcolorado.org. For more information on the Summit, please see https://www.nationalcannabissummit.org.

OMNI is excited to be partnering with the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) on a pilot research study to measure the efficacy of residential and outpatient addiction treatment, working with treatment providers across the United States. Holen Hirsh, PhD and Mary Parks, MS will be leading the research project. OMNI will be presenting an overview of the project at the annual NAATP conference in May 2017 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida..

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Congratulations to OMNI staff, Ana P. Nunes, PhD. and Melissa Richmond, PhD., and collaborators from the Colorado Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP), and the University of Colorado Boulder for publication of their research funded by the Employee Assistance Research Foundation, The Effect of Employee Assistance Services on Reductions in Employee Absenteeism, in the Journal of Business and Psychology. Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) provide an important vehicle to assist employees experiencing personal and work-related problems that impact employee absenteeism. The published research utilized an objective measure of work time lost to provide empirical evidence that users of EAP services tend to reduce their absenteeism at a faster pace than non-EAP users experiencing similar challenges to maintaining productivity. The abstract and article may be found here.

In September 2017, Katie Gelman, DrPH, MPH, presented at the Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) conference on the role of ethnic identity in the development of marijuana use among American Indian adolescents. Katie’s research has included testing the measurement characteristics of an ethnic identity construct over a two-year period during early adolescence to understand how this complex construct may shift during a period of rapid developmental change. Katie also discussed findings related to testing the ethnic identity construct as a protective factor influencing emergent marijuana use. Findings from growth mixture model analyses suggested that while ethnic identity showed null effects, culturally-based community activities had a strong protective effect against risky marijuana use, as did prosocial peer relationships. For more information on the NCRE conference, click here.

Congratulations to OMNI staff and partners at Peer Assistance Services, Inc., and Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health for publication of their commentary Ten Years of Implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): Lessons Learned in Substance Abuse Journal. SBIRT is a public health approach to identifying, reducing, and preventing substance misuse. In the article, Dr. Nunes and her co-authors reflect on key strategies that support successful implementation of substance use screening and intervention in health care settings as a standard of care. The abstract and article may be found here

OMNI was delighted to present at the 2017 National Cannabis Summit in Denver, Colorado. OMNI staff, Melissa Richmond, PhD, and Carolyn Swenson, MSPH, MSN, RN, from Peer Assistance Services, Inc., presented a Lunch and Learn session: Lessons from 10 Years of Cannabis Screening and Intervention in Colorado. Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is an established approach to identify individuals who use substances at risky levels to intervene early and prevent negative health consequences. Colorado was awarded two consecutive five-year federal grants (2006-2016) to implement SBIRT and screened over 173,000 patients for alcohol and other drugs, including cannabis. To better understand cannabis use in a changing landscape, OMNI conducted studies examining data on individuals who had been screened for cannabis through SBIRT Colorado. At the Summit, Melissa and Carolyn shared approaches to cannabis screening that account for legalization; information on delivering brief interventions tailored to context and population subgroups; and age-related and subpopulation trends in cannabis screening. The session also addressed needed areas for research, including definitions of risk level based on quantity and frequency of use, and cannabis impacts on health. For more information on SBIRT Colorado, please see http://www.sbirtcolorado.org. For more information on the Summit, please see https://www.nationalcannabissummit.org.

OMNI is excited to be partnering with the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) on a pilot research study to measure the efficacy of residential and outpatient addiction treatment, working with treatment providers across the United States. Holen Hirsh, PhD and Mary Parks, MS will be leading the research project. OMNI will be presenting an overview of the project at the annual NAATP conference in May 2017 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida..